Re: draft-blunk-rpslng-05.txt has been submitted

["Larry J. Blunk" <]

On Thursday 13 May 2004 20:46, Mark Prior wrote:
> Larry J. Blunk wrote:
> >      The draft is available at www.radb.net/rpslng-05.html.  The
> > structured syntax has been updated to reflect comments by Cengiz and
> > Mark.  Note that the optional afi field is now outside the brackets in
> > refine and except expressions.  I believe this is simpler and more
> > intuitive.  We may wish to simplify further and only allow an initial afi
> > specification on policy expressions (similar to the optional protocol
> > fields).  However, I don't have a strong opinion on this.
>
> Can we also "fix" community_elm so that you can use wildcards, or
> preferably regular expressions, on each side of the ":". For example, it
> would be useful to be able to delete(7575:*) rather than have to list
> them, although delete(7575:[1-9][0-9]{3}) would be better.
>
> Mark.

     Unfortunately, the dictionary "typedef" support seems a bit too limited
to extend community_elm like this.  Do you have any proposed text for
the draft?   It seems like a new "community_exp" pre-defined type would need
to be added to the dictionary.    The support for "<num>:<num>"  syntax to
express "integers" is already a bit of a hack added for communities.

     Speaking of communities, should the RFC3765 "NOPEER" community be
added to the well-known community enum list?

  -Larry